Re: [RFC] Mark deprecated functions with SVN_DEPRECATED / __attribute__((deprecated))

>>
>> Does Microsoft Visual C define a definition which allows to
>> unequivocally
>> identify this compiler?
>> (GCC defines __GNUC__.)
>
> Microsoft Visual C uses _MSC_VER to declare its use and its version.
> __declspec(deprecated) was introduced in VC.Net 2002 (_MSC_VER = 1300)
>
> The _MSC_VER numbering started in the MSDOS versions.
>
> VC++ 1.0 for Windows 3.1 used version 800 if I remember correctly. I do
> remember you had to install twenty-one 3.5" disks ;-)
>

For completeness... if you ever want or need further granularity on MS
compiler versions, recent compiler versions have defined _MSC_FULL_VER
and _MSC_BUILD.

The best description I have seen regarding these macros (their uses,
differences, and why's), is in the following blog entry:

http://blogs.msdn.com/vcblog/archive/2008/08/11/tr1-fixes-in-vc9-sp1.aspx#8882209

You might want to read it for a chuckle (you think they would have
figured this stuff out after 20 years).

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